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[00:00:01] Speaker A: Y. Yo, what up, bro? Y' all stand for O.T. [00:00:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:00:08] Speaker A: Nah, get that bread, bro. I gotta stay for ot. Listen up, workers. Overtime is mandatory this weekend. No excuses. Let me work. [00:00:22] Speaker B: Please let me work. [00:00:24] Speaker A: Let me work. [00:00:26] Speaker B: Please let me. [00:00:31] Speaker A: Like that. [00:00:32] Speaker B: Like that. [00:00:35] Speaker A: We are the new york knicks. We are the new york knicks. Go, new york. Go, new york, go. [00:00:47] Speaker B: Go, new york. [00:00:48] Speaker A: Go, new york. [00:00:49] Speaker B: Go. [00:00:50] Speaker A: Go, new york. Go, new york, go. Like that. Like that's happening. What's happening, everybody? She made, man. DJ High Star here for another episode of mandatory overtime. Here. Mandatory overtime. The aim is to recalibrate and redefine manhood. That's with the community, with each conversation. All right? It's the journal, audio journal of an 80s, baby. Simply a social experiment and consistency. You could have been anywhere in the world, but you're here listening to me. And for that, I really appreciate y'. All. Appreciate that. Okay? Don't confuse this with the man who's fair. It's just a place where the man is fair. So pull up a chair, like, comment, subscribe, share, and make some noise. Cause your man is here, y'. All. You heard? Fresh off of a NBA cup championship. You know what I'm saying? Live from Charlotte, America, may I add. What's happening, 704. What up, though? What up, though? And they say. I got a Russian sound engineer. And a check, one, two. A check, one, two. Come on, man. What's happening, y'? All? Let's go to work. Let's go to work. Let's go to work. Again, congratulations to the New York Knicks. All right, go over that a little bit in the random thoughts, but salute. Salute. On the NBA cup vibes and all of that. New York Knicks came home with the NBA cup, beating the San Antonio spurs yesterday evening. I'll get the score and all of that stuff for y' all in a second, man. But right now, I'm still elated. Yeah. Yeah, I am. Okay, Something to talk about. And it's there. And we won it. Okay? If we would have fumbled and not won it, then everybody would have been talking about how we wasn't prepared, that we didn't win it. So there. Shout out to my New York Knicks man once again. But what's going on, y'? All? What's going on with everybody? Fresh off of a trip to the port city, to the holy city down in Charleston, South Carolina. Try to keep everything concise for y' all in brief, but I had an awesome time. Awesome time with my fellas down there, okay? With the. With the usual suspects. Old Man Q. All right. Shout out to you. My boy, fat boy was out there. All right, Mix master T. Show love. And we was all down there celebrating. My boy Carlos, he was celebrating his engagement and having an engagement dinner down there in Charleston. So salute to Carlos. Downtown Charleston at that. So we had an awesome time. Also got a chance to see some of my family down there. So, yeah, just a beautiful time. We're gonna go over a couple things in the out to lunch segment, but I do want to go over real quick so I could kind of split up the out to lunch per segment. This part, matter of fact, just get into it real early because this was like snacks. We're going to call this the little appetizer. Okay. It's a little warm up. But the engagement dinner, oh, man, it was some hors d'. Oeuvres, but you know, the food is good when you get full off of hors d' oeuvres when you just kind of violate in the hors d'. Oeuvres. So a couple of the hors d', oeuvres, they had had some crab cakes. Okay. We down there in Charleston, but the crab cakes was probably like a half a dollar size or something like that. So I was just popping those crab cakes like, I don't know, like Mentos or something like that. But the crab cakes, they had a nice little small taco vibe setup. Some caprese sticks, caprice, if you will, like some mozzarella tomatoes drizzled with the balsamic vibe and cements over that. So that was slamming. The meatballs was slamming. Let me think. There was, oh, a chicken and waffle type of skewer as well. So a chicken tender, a little chicken nugget with two waffles, sandwiching it together on a skewer. And it was drizzled with a little maple syrup. So that was busting as well. So all of the. All of the food items there was definitely slamming. We got to meet Carlos's future in laws and also Carlos is his family and everything like that was out there as well. So great time, great time, awesome time, man. Had a blast. Actually, speaking of Carlos on the side, he's definitely going to be one of our early guests that we do have on the episode. He's got a lot going on down there in the Lancaster area. Believe is considered one of the top hundred men or something like that in the Lancaster area down there. So salute to my brother again and thank you again for the invite down there to Charleston. On that Saturday evening. We went out Went out, hit the town. I haven't been out in Charleston, and let's say, I don't know. Well, I've been out in Charleston last year, but on a regular basis where I'm kind of leading the. The vibe and providing the vibe. Yo, this is we going, y', all, and all of that stuff. It's been about 10 years, 15 years. But we went to a spot down there called Groovers, and there's a listening bar. Had the first sign that we was gonna have a good time. Had a lot of vinyls all over the walls. Okay, great bar set up in the bar, had La Gratona. That's when I knew, oh, he about to turn up, y'. [00:07:06] Speaker B: All. [00:07:06] Speaker A: So we chilled out there, had a great time. Again, they were playing analog, so it was a DJ's dream to hear that versus to hear digital. Just the sound is different. It's a little bit more impactful with analog, it's just a different sound that you hear, you know, audibly speaking. So awesome time down there in Charleston. I really enjoy myself, per usual. Had a great time. I'm gonna get to Sunday morning when we go to our out to Lunch segment and speak on that. But great time down in Charleston, and thank you, Port City, for showing me a good time, man. [00:07:45] Speaker C: Thank you. [00:07:52] Speaker A: All right, so I'll go ahead and move forward. We're gonna go ahead and move forward this week to our Building Wisdom segment. So this week we're building Wisdom. I'm gonna read off a couple of quotes and things like that from Cousin Jerome from Taz. But we have a couple. Well, several videos this week that we're going to play. So let's go ahead and get started on Building Wisdom. [00:08:15] Speaker B: Is that Prince for King? Come here, Prince. What's today's mathematics, yo? No disrespect, but we ain't in all of that, son. Build, destroy the builders. To elevate the mentalities of self and those around self, to add positive energy to every nation. To build, you must first start from the root, which is the knowledge foundation, and add on to the highest peak. To destroy is to eliminate and destroy any and all negativity that enters my cipher of supreme harmony. [00:08:41] Speaker A: Peace, God. [00:08:42] Speaker B: Peace, God. [00:08:45] Speaker A: I know you gonna dig this. All right, so the first piece of wisdom comes from Cousin Jerome. It was sent in. It says, there is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists or simulate it where it does not. So it's tough. It's tough. And move forward to the next one that says gracious words. Are a honeycomb sweet to the soul and healing to the bones. Right. And then also this is from Hal Borland. Knowing trees. I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass. I can appreciate persistence. Okay. It might take me a little while I get the trees part, but in the grass situation, that grass side, I gotta kind of dig up with that, with that saying. But let's move on to brother Taz, who's always got a word. He's always got a good word. Let's see. Here we go. There's always something to give when you give from the heart. Simple but impactful. Right there. All right. Always trust your instincts. They are messages from your soul. Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tiptoe if you must, but take the step. I love that one. I think we're gonna finish on that one. Let's see here. I'll finish on this one. I think I may have read this in the past, but I want to read this again if I haven't. It was Deepak Chopra. It says, to acquire true self power, you have to feel beneath no one, be immune to criticism, and be fearless. That was tough right there. So piece of wisdom. All right, so we're going to move forward to our videos or our audio clips for the wisdom this week. Teaching common sense. [00:10:47] Speaker B: Was I not listening correctly or. [00:10:48] Speaker A: Well, you know, he would illustrate it this way. I don't advocate any kind of hate. There's a lot of talk that sounds very much like it. No, I think that the guilt complex of the American white man is so profound until when you begin to analyze the real condition of the black man in America instead of the American white man eliminating the causes that create that condition, he tries to cover it up by accusing his accusers of teaching hate, but actually they're just exposing him for being responsible for what exists. Is the sheep preaching hate when he says, I'm not gonna let the wolf eat me anymore? If the wolf comes in here, next time he comes in here, I'll do whatever I have to do to keep him off my back. Is the sheep violent or is the wolf the violent one? You know, somebody's knocking you over the head. Stop them. Do whatever you have to do to stop them. You know, the ones that were knocking him over the head were afraid of the fact that he might swing back. So they said, no, he's teaching hate. He's violent. [00:11:57] Speaker B: Offering a $45,000 signing bonus plus $100,000 starting salary. A teacher in her eighth year with a master's degree will make $55,000. It was never true that we don't have enough money to pay teachers more. It was always intentional. Education has been intentionally defunded for decades because an educated populace is a threat to power. Read the books, do the work. They are absolutely terrified of education. [00:12:28] Speaker A: All right, so that first one was Malcolm X is actually Denzel Washington in an interview. And then they cut to Malcolm X and. And he was speaking about Denzel being mistaken, that he wasn't teaching hate, that he was teaching common sense. And then the second one was a brother on social media that was speaking about ICE bonuses and the incentives that they were offering to ICE people that apply for ICE jobs and employment through ice. So this last one is a little bit more light hearted, but still, it affects us. It kind of goes to my point about small businessing ourselves out of community, but I wanted y' all to listen to this next audio clip about black clubs and a club life. [00:13:11] Speaker B: Please explain this to me. Why do we go to the club, stand around and just look cool? [00:13:16] Speaker A: We paying $400 for a bottle. [00:13:17] Speaker B: Patron, you buying a booth. The seat not even comfortable. You can feel the wood through the cushion. The booth costs 800. You're putting on your $2,000 outfit, and you're just standing there. You're barely trying to holler at girls. You're not trying to dance with nobody. I just don't understand why we're paying so much to stand in. And I'd be having a hard time paying. It's $30 at the door. The bouncer might be feeling like, give me an extra 20 too, while you at. [00:13:40] Speaker A: Yeah. When I was in Jamaica most recently, I was at a club where it was like that, too. [00:13:43] Speaker B: I saw that video was standing around. Jamaican music is always lit. Yeah, man, I missed 2008 Gardner Road. [00:13:49] Speaker C: No. [00:13:49] Speaker A: What? [00:13:51] Speaker B: I'm going to my outfit. Up sweating this white tee. Yeah. And black people. [00:14:02] Speaker A: Great points. That's my boy, A.J. the menace of Menace material and Homeroom University. But it looked like he was a guest on another podcast perhaps, and just making valid points, made valid points on nightlife, black nightlife and the club scene. And it seems like an extortion or a stick up. I saw. I heard Deontay Kyle kind of breaking down in real time on one of his shows. The kind of the science behind the whole making it rain concept and how it stemmed from drug dealers that had too much dirty money. They couldn't clean all of their money, so it was extra money that they had that they Looking to get rid of. And I mean, of course, you had artists, musical artists and stuff that emulated that as well and began to do it also. And then you had regular people trying to keep up with the Joneses and trying to do it as well. And now here we are, a culture that's programmed and throw money away, essentially. So that was all of our building wisdom for the week. Let's see here. [00:15:10] Speaker B: Let's go do the knowledge. [00:15:12] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay, great. So let's go ahead and move forward, though. Wanted to move forward and play a couple of voicemails from this week, and then we're gonna go ahead and react to them. The voicemails are from brothers Sock and our brothers Be Easy. So salute to them first and foremost for sending those through. And then let's go ahead and listen to them. And then we're gonna go ahead and react to the voicemails. All right, Take a listen here. Hello. [00:15:46] Speaker B: Please leave a message after the tone. Hey, hot star was with. You know how you be saying you be hearing this little random around the job and you feel me Was with. I heard somebody. I overheard somebody talking about how he was cursing somebody out. And she said to the man that she was. She said that she said. And that's why you be. Yeah, that was bogus. [00:16:14] Speaker A: Hold on. [00:16:16] Speaker B: Whoa. [00:16:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Hold on. [00:16:19] Speaker B: You feel me? Gotta just keep going on about my business. [00:16:21] Speaker A: Crazy work. [00:16:22] Speaker B: Wow. Quick question, huh? Yeah, I'm saying General generally asking the. The. The community, those in concert. What were y' all smoking when you. [00:16:39] Speaker A: Hey, yo. [00:16:40] Speaker B: Eventually became grown enough to hide that you were high to the knowledge. When I say what were you smoking? I'm talking about isn't. Was it Duchess? [00:16:49] Speaker A: Oh, okay. [00:16:54] Speaker B: Also, what was. What was the strange. I was smoking? Was it the sours that was of the other world. Cushions your cushions your Pips, your perps. You know, what was those things going on? What was those things that had us. That were. That you all were smoking once it became non high. [00:17:19] Speaker A: Okay, I'll get to that one in a second here. [00:17:23] Speaker B: Yo, what's up, DJ High star In the mandatory over overtime family. It's your boy Be Easy from the DJ Blaze radio show podcast. And I was interested in knowing because I know you a music lover and you listen to all types of music and stuff. I was interested. Interested in knowing your end of the year, like Spotify, Apple, like top. Like your top artists and the top things you listen to, but loving the show. Keep up the good work. And I can't wait to hear what your top artists and all of that is. [00:18:02] Speaker A: Nice. Shout out, shout out, shout out. [00:18:06] Speaker B: I know you're gonna dig this. [00:18:09] Speaker A: Yes, again, I appreciate y' all for the like that, like that. For the contributions and for the voice notes, for the voicemails and everything like that. I appreciate that. For everybody else that would like to contribute and participate in the show, feel free to@mabitate ot704gmail.com is the email mandatoryot704gmail.com or give us a call on our hotline 7047-8170-1170-4781-7011. We'll make sure that you get heard, that we play your voice note or voicemail and read your email and then we're going to go ahead and engage. So let's start off first of all, Sock, because we work together, brother. So yo and I know exactly what Shorty was talking about. I boy supposed to be a gangster, but nevertheless there's neither here nor there. Listen, y', all, listen. So also though, Sock, I appreciate the question as well. So there's a long time connoisseur, if you will. Again, those in concert. If you know, you know. Now starting off with the tobacco. White owls and swishes were my thing back in Orangeburg when I was in school. But then I graduated to to Dutch's while in Orangeburg. Mind you, all of those things kind of left a smell, leaves a smell on your clothes very heavy. Don't get me wrong. Regardless, if you got, you know, za that's going to leave a smell regardless. But there was a heavier smell with that, with that tobacco paper and with the cigar, using the cigar. So it was definitely tough to hide back then. Our mode or method of hiding would be like getting in the car and taking off the hoodie or something that you're wearing, throwing it in the back seat and thinking that that's being hid from while you're hot boxing in a car. The logic behind that, but we thought that it worked. And then also spraying yourself down with bod or I don't know, Polo or I don't know, Davidov, Jean Paul Gaultier, I don't know. But spraying yourself down with like some body spray or, or cologne was also the earlier days. Now moving forward for me, I started moving forward to the papers. I noticed that the smell didn't linger as long. But when you're talking about the actual flower itself, you know, the, those flowers, it was a pungency was a thing. So whenever, you know there wasn't and then the other thing was the packaging wasn't as exquisite as it is and. And elite as it is today, sophisticated. So your packaging, where all of it is kind of that child proof Ziploc, double Ziploc type of thing. We didn't have that. We just had the sandwich bags or a little baggie with the Ziploc situation, you know, so it was reeking through your clothes. If you had it on you, if you had it in a jacket, if you had it on your book bag or whatever, it was wreaking. So it's definitely difficult to hide back then. So I say the turning point again was when the packaging started to change into smell proof and smell proof became the standard. And also when I switched personally from like backwoods or dutches and I started to indulge in more of the papers of the world. Right. You know, the white boys as they call them. But I appreciate your question though as well. I love to hear from our audience and our community that does indulge in that kind of, you know, what was your favorite strands in the past? You know, sour and Gorilla Glue has always been some consistent vibes for me. So I've had, you know, your Northern Lights of the world back then in the day and perps and all of that type of stuff. But source and Gorilla Glue is always, always kind of in clutch. So outside of that, again, I appreciate you again, Sock for submitting a voice note. But moving forward to my brother, my brother Mr. Abo, you good Be easy. I need y' all to tune in to his podcast, the DJ Blaze radio show. Oh man, Entertainment again, one of my favorite podcasts. I listen to it every week is and definitely in my rotation but also his cousin and mine Music Jones podcast that comes on under the Crux Media Network or Crux Media umbrella. So I need y' all to tune into that. Please be easy. I appreciate, I appreciate you and your voicemail, your voice note. I'll start off by saying with Spotify, I've slowed down. I haven't used Spotify all year. So Apple Music does get most of my run. Tidal did get most of my burn or most of the run. Jay Z. I think I'll get to it later. But if you. Your capitalist is difficult to view you as somebody's pro black or you're doing it for black people and. And stuff. So what I say all of that to say that title acquisition was, you know, a business move and a business played by Jay Z. Salute to him. As soon as he gave up a majority stake or whatever business move he recently made with title, the prices started getting jacked up. There's a DJ element or component of title that is getting, you know, jacked up as well. And it comes down to it, y', all, you can't have $25 to invest or to stream into everything. Don't go broke or you're going to be spending $1,000 on different streaming services every month combined. And that's just not feasible. Or it's not. It's not sustainable. So while we're in the subscription games in the subscription wars or races, you can't. It's not sustainable really to have more than one. So I say all of that to say I let my title go dormant, if you will. And I've been listening to Apple music all year and using that because me and my family, we have Apple music family or whatnot. So I want to first go through the top songs of 2025. This is kind of funny, but if you a listener of the show from day one, you be able to guess what the. What the songs are. Okay, well, the top 12 songs that I have on here are all from Chance the rappers, Starline. The top five in that order. Number one, no more old men. Come on, that makes sense. Number two, space and time. It's my track right there. Number three, Ride. Number four, the highs and the lows with Joey Badass. And number five, the negro problem. Those are my top five rounds out. The top ten is number six, back to the go with Vink Mensah. Number seven, the intro Starside Intro. Number eight, speed of Love with Jasmine Sullivan. Number nine, link me in the future. And number ten, gun in your purse now with numbers next to it. How many times you played it? I would argue that I've played it way more times than these, but hey, that's what it has it listed as. Some other notables in my top 20 when it comes to songs is Drive by scissor, got 30 for 30 by sizzle with Kendrick. Skate by Jid Sierra. Excuse me. Skate by Jid Sierra and Earth Gang. Or Jizz Sierra and Earth Gang. That. That was my track right there. Still is. Still is. Rema is in there with a little bit of afrobeat representation. The baby is it a crime? The shot a flip or whatnot. And then Jade. Also, I also have Jid's community in here. I didn't notice how. How interesting this was. I kind of stayed away from it for other reasons. But that's. So to round out the top 20, had a couple more tracks in there from Chance the Rapper Starline. And then I had POV featuring Eclipse featuring Tyler the Creator in my top 20. So that's. That's definitely very interesting. It's not really climactic because there's a whole lot of Chance the Rapper in there with Starline. But I'll go to my top albums of 2025. This is a little bit more interesting. I like this because I would have expected GNX to be in the top five, but it's not surprisingly. I'm going to go through my top five. Number one, there's no surprise there. Starline, Chance the Rapper. Then number two, I have this guy does like Ugly A Jid J. I die. Number three, we got the clips. Let God sort them out. Number four is the SOS Deluxe album Lana by sza. And then rounding out the top five. Can anybody guess? Anybody? I wish I had a drum roll in here. Wiz Khalifa Cushion Orange Juice 2 to round out the top five for my top five albums of 2025. And then number six was GNX. Kendrick got in there with GNX. Alfredo 2 is number nine. Life is Beautiful by Larry June. And Two Chains is number 10. Number seven. And number eight, interestingly enough, is the Blueprint by Jay Z. I'm sure it'd be easy to appreciate this and the blueprint, too. The gift and the curse. It's the gift and a curse. Everything is a lot. It was a late, late ad right there. Number 12. So salute to him. And then Mr. Morale in the big step is actually still stood firm pause at number 11. So shout out to the top albums. And he's got like top stations and the top playlists, top genres, top artists every month. Let's go through that real quick set to tell a story, if you will. I don't know how let Playboy Cardi be my top artist in March, but January says it was my top artist. And then it skips straight to March. It doesn't have a February March. Playboy Cardi was my favorite artist or top artist. April was Whiz Khalifa. May was Kendrick. June was Jay Z. July was Push A T. August, September and October is my main my man. And November was Kendrick Lamar. So salute to the analytics. I try not to get into them again too much. Oh, let's see this one real quick. Top songs by Mom, Circadian Rhythm by Drake in January again, February. Some reason is missed out on. I don't know, I just wasn't listening to music. March was good credit by Kendrick Lamar and Playboi Carti, Jet Taylor featuring Terrace Martin. And it was in April five Star featuring Gunna from Wiz. That was May. June Hanging On a String, Loose Loose Ends. That's the old school track right there. July POV by the Clips August no More Old Men September Starside intro in October, no More Old Men. So it was just Starline type of end of the year for me. And then November was Belly by Wale as far as my top songs by the month. So salute to Apple Music, I suppose for the analytics once again, I know they limit the other analytics that they give you, but that's another argument for another day. I appreciate the voicemail from my boy Be easy my bro. And just the engagement and stuff, you know, I'd love to hear some of y' all list or some of y' all top artists if you will. Again, you can always be heard here at mandatory overtime by emailing the show mandatory ot704gmail.com or give us a call on the hotline 704-781-7011 and we'll make sure that we play your voicemail on on air. All right. So again, appreciate y' all for those voice notes. Wanted to go ahead and it's about that time for us to. Is it that time yet? Yeah, let's go ahead and go into the break room real quick before we speak about what we was going out to lunch for. I do want to play this clip because it. It like Sock already cranked it off with random things heard at work. And this is something that I feel like I would. This is a random thing that, like I would. I don't know. This is just a random thing. It's not necessarily heard at work. But I want y' all to hear this real quick. All right, hold on. [00:31:26] Speaker B: We gotta start teaching our kids, though, just, just that. Just financial wealth and literacy and all that that early. [00:31:34] Speaker C: By the time they get to ninth. [00:31:35] Speaker B: Grade, they should be just learning how to start businesses, but they don't really. [00:31:40] Speaker A: Need to know how know how to read. Who the hell is in the background? Hey, hold on, hold on. Because did y' all hear the in the background mad ant say that? Respectfully, I'm not saying that in a way to be literate because you're not. [00:31:59] Speaker B: Supposed to be illiterate, but you can. [00:32:01] Speaker A: What's wrong? Reading or math? [00:32:04] Speaker B: Math. [00:32:04] Speaker A: Math. [00:32:05] Speaker B: Told you. [00:32:06] Speaker A: Math. I think you could get it. [00:32:07] Speaker B: You can listen to a book on YouTube. You can still obtain the information. You don't have to know how to read. Understanding, I believe common sense is better than everything. I. I'm A common sense. I'd rather have zero book smarts and common sense. Be able to read the room. Be able to read life, Be able to read people. I try to understand people. Understand. [00:32:27] Speaker C: I'm saying, like. [00:32:28] Speaker B: But seriously, though. [00:32:32] Speaker A: All right, all right. Hold on. Because what the. What you wild. You wild talking about you rather be able to read the room. I'm not even the type of nigga that does this. I hate doing this. People do this and bring up unrelated stuff. But, bro, you. Your common sense has failed you over and over in the past. Okay, we're not gonna bring it all up, but what the hell are you talking about? Yo, Elsa's bugging. Bugging out. It literally did licks and all of that. Literally, Literally had to highlight that real quick. I know we. We build wisdom all the time, but it just got to show the importance of it, because I just totally disagree. Dude in the background, he looking for a friend. I told y'. All. I told y'. [00:33:24] Speaker B: All. [00:33:24] Speaker A: I told y'. All. What are you talking about, bro? What are you talking about? Relax, man. And that shit was wild, yo. That shit was wild. So that. That was. That went along with random thoughts heard on the. On the work floor, but I heard that on the Internet, and I was just like, I gotta bring that to y' all because he's. He's bugging. He's bugging. You're bugging out. So the next thing is again, out for Lunch segment this week is actually brought to you by. No official ad right here. This is not an ad, but Fleet Land and restaurant down in Charleston. Chef's Kiss. So shout out to Fleet Landing down there in Charleston, right off the water. Downtown. Downtown. Okay. Great view from the water. You had the option of the outdoor seating in the indoor. We was. Me and the fellas, we sat outdoors, had great service. Actually introduced myself to the Bloody Mario. And it wasn't bad. It wasn't bad. Had a Bloody Mary tomato juice vibe. I think some vodka had a celery stalk in there. Pickled okra. It was. It was a little mix. I felt like a wealthy white woman for a sec. But first experience with the Bloody Mary, that was cool. Then we got to the food. The food was busting. Okay, start off with mine. I had a crab cake sandwich, so it's one of my go to's when I get to Baltimore, whenever I go to Baltimore. So down in Charleston, I did the same. It's a little bit different from the Baltimore. Your Baltimore has your. More your lump crab meat, if you will. That's you know, your. The. Let me see here. The Baltimore, it'll. It'll include lump crab meat, while Charleston's crab cakes has more like a blue crab claw crab meat, if you will. So both of them still delectable. My boy, fat boy, he had, like, the crab cake platter with two crab cakes on there. Old Man Q, he had a seared salmon, which looked great also. But the dish that stole the show is Mixmaster tea and his flounder that he ordered. The flounder took up half the table, y', all, man, just be real. The flounder, they went ahead and scored it. So it was scored with the little diamond, you know, cuts, and it was deep fried. That joint was busting flaky. It was just made to perfection. Season great, all of that. The sides out there, Fleet Landing, awesome. The fellas had collard greens. Also wanted to bring to the attention of the audience in the community. Is anyone out there had never had red. Never have had red rice. Y' all let me know. Anyone not had red rice in the past. I really learned in real time that, you know, that everyone didn't eat that. And, you know, it's again, red rice with some Roger with sausages in there or little, you know, tomato paste. And you got your. You canned or you stewed tomato in there as well, perhaps. Brett Rice has always been like a staple for me coming up. So when they ordered it down there in Charleston, and we just figured it was, again, a communication thing because I think everyone in the most people have had jambalaya rice. It's very similar to Charleston red rice, so they have it. We had an awesome time, though. So once again, shout out to Fleet Landing. And the food and the drinks appetizers was busting as well. Oyster situation. Raw oyster bar had the royal oysters. Like a blue crab dip. It was like a cold crab dip bus in. And then also we had blue crab dip, Roy oysters and old man Q has some she crab soup. So shout out to Charleston and shout out to Fleet Landing as well. Had an awesome time down there. Just wanted to go ahead. Let's go ahead and move right along. We gotta move forward with the show this week. So let's see random thoughts and get it off your chest. I don't have too many things to get off my chest this week. Just again, the random thoughts this week are all sports related. The first random thought that I had written down said dk GM Metcalf. And that stood for DK Grown Man Metcalf. Because DK was wilding DK was wild. And that was the Monday Night Football game, I want to say. And Pittsburgh played Miami. Yo, DK Metcalf. First of all, I want to make sure that Pittsburgh played my that it was Miami that Pittsburgh played. But Aaron Rodgers, he's got a couple weapons. The Steelers, they're getting hot at the right time. Apologize. All right. Yeah. So the Dolphins played the Steelers. The Steelers beat the Dolphins 28 to 15. The highlight of the game had to be DK Metcalf's touchdown. It was like a 28 yard, I want to say like a 28 yard touchdown. But when he catches the ball, Aaron. Aaron Rodgers zipped the ball past the defender first. So he catches the a difficult ball. As soon as he catches the ball, he gets in position a stiff arm or more accurately, he threw a player off of him. Get off of me. Right off me. N fuck out of here. And he starts to get it. And as soon as he threw the player off of him, he jukes a whole nother player. Get off me. And remains north south to get into the end zone like a bowling ball knocking over bowling pins with guys trying to tackle him. So I had written down DK grown man Metcalf as soon as that play happened. Salute and brotherly love to DK Metcalf also. That's my brother. Be easy team as well. So shout out to the Steelers. I suppose got a couple other Steelers fans in my close circumference. Kenneth, Eric, Shout out to the Steelers brother best. Corey. Shout out to the Steelers. Okay, Raph. Shout out to the Steelers. Y' all are doing your thing. Another team that is doing their thing or did their thing, it's the New York Knicks. I said the New York Knicks. Go New York. Go New York, go. Go New York. Go New York. Go to New York Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs 124 to 113 after rallying back after being down. I believe they was down by 10 points in I believe it was down by 10 points in the third. But let me go ahead and read the article from ESPN here. It's been more than a half a century since the Knicks hung an NBA championship banner inside Madison Square Garden. The wait since 1973 to add another one didn't end on Tuesday night. But New York can make room for the NBA cup banner. Slow shade there. OG Anunoby scored 28 points, Jalen Brunson had 25. And the Knicks rallied to beat Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs 124 to 113 again. This is great and we're going to enjoy this, brunson said. But once we leave tomorrow, we're moving on. This is a championship roster. NBA Cup MVP Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart and Mikhail Bridges all cut down the nets in college at Villanova, of course, with high hopes of representing the Eastern Conference in the NBA Finals. All right, Mike Brown went on to say, this is a single elimination tournament when you get to a certain point, so every game counts. There was pressure on every game. If you expect to be who you think you are when you're able to have success, it breeds confidence in everybody in the organization. All right, Big Cat Carl Anthony Towns has 16 points and 11 rebounds despite battling the calf injury. Yeah, he left and he came back. Dylan Harper led The spurs with 21 points. Web and Yama had 18 points. De' Aaron Fox has 16 points. When Binyama excused himself early from the post game news conference, he the article on ESPN says because he said he just lost somebody, quote unquote on Tuesday is very insensitive. But he lost his grandmother and he admitted to that. Now, also, to tell more the story on the Knick side of things, we dominated inside the beginning of the game. I kept saying, yo, they kind of edging us out on the boards and that was making me nervous. But Mitchell Robinson ended up bringing his lunch pail per usual and he out rebounded. We the Knicks out rebounded the Spurs 59 42. Mitchell Rich Mitchell Robinson collected 15 rebounds and 10 of those were offensive rebounds. That was just only an 18 minutes. So that helped to give the Knicks 56:44 edge on points in the paint. So salute. I know that I'm just going sports crazy here with the Knicks spurs talk, but hey, when the Knicks win something, I got to talk about it a little bit. At least a little bit. Okay? Okay. All right. So I did want to read this as well while we're here in random thoughts the New York Knicks had this again is from espn. From Vincent Goodwill the New York Knicks have decided against hanging a banner at Madison Square Garden for winning the NBA cup, sources told espn. Shams Sharania Although Knicks head coach Mike Brown intimated a banner would go up, a decision was made against it shortly after the Knicks defeated the San Antonio spurs on Tuesday night. The past two winners, the Los Angeles Lakers and Milwaukee Bucks, have banners in their respective arenas. The Knicks haven't hung a team banner since winning the Eastern Conference in 1999. There's a lot of positives about it, brown said in the aftermath but the most positive is being able to hang a banner up in msg, the most iconic arena in the league. Most of the players seemed largely indifferent about it. Karl Anthony Towns said that the Knicks would celebrate that one night before going back to business as usual. They'll be in Indianapolis on Thursday. Jalen Brunson, who was named the tournament mvp, he's echoed Town sentiment, says the Knicks have designs on playing in the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999. Brunson went on to say, I don't think that we're having a parade. We're going to enjoy this, but once we leave tomorrow, we're moving on. I love to hear, love to hear from my team, love to hear the focus. All right. But somebody said something. Oh, uh huh huh. Say what? What else? Go New York, go New York go. Huh. Go New York, go New York, go. What are we talking about y'? All? What are we talking about, huh? Who blacker than me. [00:45:05] Speaker B: Huh? [00:45:07] Speaker A: Who hided in me? Let me check. It was a grand opening, grand closing for the Panthers last week with the first round. I mean what was that? That they was the first, the first place in the division. Yeah. That was very, very short lived for the Panthers. So we're gonna go ahead and see what the vibes is. Let's go ahead and see what's good. So let's go ahead and move forward with that. After a random thoughts. Wanted to go ahead and move into our show for the day. Yeah. How do I get into this y'? [00:45:49] Speaker B: All. [00:45:49] Speaker A: Let's just get straight to it though. Again after the Diddy documentary we saw last week. Excuse me. Or that we talked about or discussed a little bit last week has been getting more and more traction. Of course more and more people are discussing it. It's very polarizing. People are taking different stances about it against 50 cents or you know, with 50 cents with regards to it. And it just had me thinking because most of the people that are talking about this. Hold on y'. All. So I'm sorry, you know how on these type of shows you got to pay bills and everything like that. That so I did have to play. I know most of my things that I say is not an ad. I did want to go ahead and play this from today's sponsor. Today's sponsor is the city of Baltimore. So I wanted to go ahead and play this ad from. From the city. [00:46:48] Speaker B: This will be the way all people going to Atlanta will actually say they are going to Atlanta. You want Atlanta? No. [00:46:54] Speaker A: Atlanta Badangs. Hahaha. On getting the names badoog. [00:46:58] Speaker B: It also can be used to replace the word head in all aspects of acts. Dude, hey, where you get that badoog? [00:47:03] Speaker A: Get trimmed up at goot. [00:47:05] Speaker B: It's not begging to fight. [00:47:07] Speaker C: O you monotonous. [00:47:08] Speaker B: Some 2053 type shit right here. [00:47:10] Speaker A: You know what I mean? Do you think the mayor speaks the language? [00:47:12] Speaker B: Definitely speaks the goot. Shout out. Mayor Scott Brandon. Mayor Scott. Now that's my goot. [00:47:17] Speaker A: I do know him. [00:47:18] Speaker C: I know him. [00:47:19] Speaker A: I just saw him at an event a couple weeks ago. Yes. Do you understand what he's saying? I. I understand what he's saying. [00:47:25] Speaker B: I'm trying to now cake a late. [00:47:27] Speaker A: At Apple Mackin most of the time, but, you know, I'm from Baltimore, so I can translate already. Good. [00:47:34] Speaker B: This is a lot of good energy flirming through. Yeah, do the knowledge, nigga. [00:47:39] Speaker A: All right, so that was our sponsor. Shout out to the city of Baltimore. Shout out to the Dugan ganging Algon Loot and the Scooting Langen is scooting Duke Lang and Duke off the fat mute. Skip up mute. Anyways, back to what we were discussing. Diddy documentary. Everything came out. Everybody that seems to be against 50, they have the same sentiment of yo, you want to tear down the black man. I heard Dame Dash and Dame Dash is currently in a little back and forth in a few with 50, so it makes sense for him to say something at this time. But he. He's gone on his campaign and he's been saying, yeah, it doesn't make sense to me. 50 wanting to tear down another black man. You always hear that this tear down another black man and tear down another black man. And that brings us to the main part or the main topic of our show today, right? Or the episode, if you will. Because my feelings about that is you can't tear down like, you talking about tearing down another black man. And at the end of the day, I want to just say, stop being perforated, nigga. All right? You're a perforated performer, okay? You're making it a little too easy to tear down. Feel what I'm saying? You're leaving too many holes, okay? For us to make it easy for you to tear down. Like, so that. That brings us to the show today. I mean, ultimately seen a lot of perforated tears online and in social media recently, where everybody vies for your empathy and for your sympathy and for your compassion and everything like that. I went ahead and wrote this down and I wanted to state this before we start Talking. But I wrote down that compassion and empathy cannot precede accountability. At the end of the day, I read that again because there's bars, high star bars. Compassion and empathy cannot precede accountability. So Diddy, whatever Diddy's going through right now, essentially, he made that bed. He's gonna have to lay in that. You know, I don't want to have to. I don't want to rush through this topic too much, but because I do want to talk about some of the different things going on right now with black men and when it comes to black men. But I just gotta hold us accountable. Because to be real, I'm tired of this. Y' all is. Is. It gets old. You know, we acting like we don't know what we're doing, and you know exactly what we're doing, so. And is. Is corny. This is corny. And that is whack. And somebody needs to speak up. But black people get it seems black men, especially black men, that's given a lot of power, given resources or money, if you will, have a lack of sexual discipline, and that ends up hurting them in the end. And we got to correct that. We got to get right. So most recently, I wanted to read this article here. This is from ESPN as well. It's discussing Michigan's coach from this past week and the situation that he's been through. Sharon Moore was in custody and Wash Tunnel County Jail, which is in Michigan, on Wednesday night as a suspect in an alleged assault, just hours after he was fired as Michigan football coach for having what the school said was an inappropriate relationship with a staff member. Okay. Moore was initially detained by police in Saline, Michigan, on Wednesday and turned over to authorities in Pittsville Township for investigation into potential charges. Pittsfield police released a statement Wednesday night saying that they responded at 4:10pm to the 3000 block of Ann Arbor Saline Road for the purposes of investigating an alleged assault. A suspect in this case was taken into custody. The incident does not appear to be random in nature and there appears to be no ongoing threat to the community. The suspect was lodged at Washtenaw County Jail pending review of charges by the Washtenaw county prosecutor. The statement continued, at this time, the investigation is ongoing. Given the nature of the allegations, the need to maintain the integrity of the investigation and its current status. At the time, we were prohibited from releasing additional details. So whatever, blah, blah, blah, yada, yada, yada. Pittsfield police did not name the suspect. Again, this was Sean Moore. All right, so Michigan fired more on Wednesday following an investigation into his conduct with A staff member, you. University of Michigan head coach Sharon Moore has been terminated with cause, effective immediately, the school said in a statement. Following a university investigation, credible evidence was found that coach Moore engaged inappropriate relationship with a staff member. The university and the university initially investigated more this fall after receiving a tip about the situation, but did not find credible evidence of wrongdoing, a source told espn. More information came forward Wednesday. That source that the source deemed overwhelming and led to Moore's immediate dismissal. Moore, who is 39, spent two seasons as Michigan's head coach after serving as the team's offensive coordinator. Black man, Black man. Black man. Black man, black man. Come on. Come on, y'. All. We out here being perforated. Don't tear down the black man. We gonna tear down the black man. And then is crying and, man, come on, y'. All, let's stop being perforated out here. You gotta get. Come on, y'. All. We gotta get sturdy, yo. You gotta get sturdy out here. Sturdy up, man. All right? Grown ass men out here, man. And you losing millions, fortunes, life changing money and opportunities because you're not. You're not disciplined. You're not disciplined. In with. With. I hate to say it, but with either head. Grow the up. Sturdy up, man. Sturdy up. All right, let's see here. So again, Diddy's one example, Sharon Moore being another example. Ironically speaking, when Rome Moore gets into all of these issues, who comes around the corner with who with his two cents? I gotta give my two cents. Come on, Ocho. Come on, Ocho. You know, I got to give my two cents. I got to get my two cents in there. Shout out to my brother. Be easy, too. It is. Shannon Sharp is immaculate. His Shannon Sharp impression. But, yeah, I gotta get my two cents in there. Listen to Rome Moore should not have been having sexual relations. He should have known everything that he has online. Excuse me. You know, we can. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. We can see you, bruh. What are you talking about, Shannon? I know you. I mean, I guess you giving advice from a person that's been there, but you speaking like, almost mightier than thou and higher than that. Come on, yo. Come on, Shannon. Come on, Shannon, with all of that nonsense. But listen, this is a message and a plea. A plea to my brothers. We got to sturdy up, all right? Everybody always says, and they're tearing down the black man. And, oh, they're tearing down the black man. Why we got to be so perforated? Why? Riddle me that, all right? I don't understand why we got to be so perforated as a community and again, so easily, easily terrible. Easy to tear down if you will. [00:55:38] Speaker B: Come on. [00:55:38] Speaker A: So I want to move forward to one more example. We talked about the entertainment industry with Diddy. We've talked about Sharon Moore in sports, Shannon Sharp as well in sports. I want to talk here about this young man that's also in the entertainment industry industry. I wanted to go to a good, credible article. CBS News, CBS News report here. A Bronx Drill rapper K flock sentenced to 30 years in prison. All right, so Bronx Drill rapper K. Flock, whose real name is Kevin Perez, was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday. Perez was convicted of racketeering, attempted murder and more charges back in March, prosecutors said he was the leader of the Sevside DOA gang based on East 187th Street Kevin Perez used violence and fame to fuel fear and intimidation across the Bronx. U.S. attorney Jay Clayton said Perez and his gang members carried out a string of shootings that struck both rival gang members and innocent bystanders. Perez also used his platform as a prominent rapper to celebrate his violence, threatening his rivals, bragging about his shootings and taunting his victims. Prosecutors said the gang's activities and Perez himself unleashed a series of back and forth retaliatory shootings that killed and injured fire far too many people in the Bronx. The gang primarily supported itself through bank and wire fraud, prosecutors said, and that money then funded Perez's music career as K. Flock. In one instance, the gang was involved in a shooting in June 2020, shooting that left several people injured. And within days, Perez put out a music video bragging about it. Authorities said Perez taunted, celebrated and created a culture of violence, judge Lewis Lyman said at sentencing, adding that adding the harm that Perez caused was immense. So again, these, we have these situations that happen. These guys create a song or two that's hot, that's popping. They show promise as an artist and they're living these double lives and they're permeating our culture. They're, they're cosplaying as rappers when they're really living a street life or being being street dudes. And then they're using the rap, money and fame to live a life like his GTA and Grand Theft Auto and innocent people and everything like that are getting caught in the middle of this. So this young man got sentenced to 30 years. When he first was locked up, he was showing contrition and saying all of these things that you hate to hear somebody behind bars say about how he's realized the error of his ways and that, you know, he wants other kids not to go in the direction and stuff. And it's like, you. You're still a kid yourself, bro. You know what I mean? You still young yourself. So it just hurts. It hurts to see a young child, a young prodigy, if you will, throw his life away. Musically inclined. I won't say, like the most talented, but he's musically inclined, so, you know that. That hurts to see one of our young black kings again throwing it all away and being perforated out here and easy to tear down. We got to be sturdy out here. Once again, young. All right, so just making mention of that. So that's. That's the word for the week, y'. All. Let's. Let's not be perforated. It's not be easy to tear down. Let's stay sturdy, remain sturdy out here. Yeah, I know what time it is. All right. I wanted to go ahead and move the move forward real quick and play this as well. Come out. [00:59:19] Speaker B: I always wanted to do this. I was usually over rap because, like, it's, like, true me, you know, I was like. I was, like, in the hood. I was in the trenches, but I was, like, really pop. Like, I was a pop kid. I was a pop trapper. Like, I was, like, super swaggy when I sold. [00:59:36] Speaker A: He said pop. [00:59:37] Speaker B: I was always different. I feel like I always wanted to. [00:59:42] Speaker A: Do this type music. [00:59:42] Speaker B: And then I feel like rap is in, like, a weird. Weird, like, space right now because it just seem like everybody beefing, and it's just like, tour one. Some of the biggest. Two of the biggest artists in the world, like, like, Clash and a lot of, like, ripple effect. That came weird. I feel like it's time. I feel like we gotta, like, take it to the next level. We gotta live on up, like, AI. [01:00:08] Speaker A: Just so much everything in the world. [01:00:09] Speaker B: Leveling up except hip hop, like, getting, like, worse. Like, we get. We getting worse than. Than when we first learned. Like, I think we like grief, so we just, like, comfortable comfortability. Even though we. Even when we feel like we like hustling hard as we can, we still feel like we still cap. We so comfortable. I feel like we need this type of. I look like I would be so happy if hip hop turned into pop. Nobody on this earth could me when it come to that type of. You know, I would be happy. But I also love hip hop. [01:00:48] Speaker A: Yo, Thug. Respectfully, shut the, bro. I don't. Bro, Shut up, bro. Shut up, man. I'm tired of. I'm tired. First of all, if Y' all need to, you know, contribute to the show. Show love. Email mandatory ot704gmail.com Mandatory ot704gmail.com or leave us a voicemail on the voice on the hotline. 7047-8170-1170-4781-7011. Thug, back to you, Jeffrey. Listen, bro, everybody that is talking about rappers in the weird space, we. We know what you're saying. We know what you're saying. It's coded, it's cryptic, but we know what you're saying, all right? You can't get that easy bag no more that you used to get for that bullshit, all right? For that nonsense, for that that you used to do, all right? Come on, man, put some more effort into your shit, all right? You can't. You can't use the Drake stimulus package or whatever like that to. To get you to get your shit popping. It's not simple music no more that's going like it's. It's still a variety of music that's going on. It's just the trash is getting filtered out is the bull is getting filtered out, all right? So I, again, I. I hate that people have some kind of sentiment that rap is going anywhere or anything like that. What people don't realize is with that rap or hip hop in general, the thing that was, the thing that's unstoppable or unable to kill is that we activated creators when hip hop was born. It's an industry made out of nothing. It's an industry made out of kids that was in poor situations or middle class situations. Their parents might have had one record player in the home. They learned how to play music and do different things with the music. Shout out to Grandmaster Flash by messing around with record players. Recycling, right? Then we use recycled milk crates to hold all of the records. We recycled these records. We recycled the, the equipment and things like that from the blackout in New York. We took all of that equipment and repurposed it and used it for. To create our own. So again, hip hop is something where it activated creators so it can never die. There's always going to be a creator somewhere. It may not be to the mainstream and in the forefront or selling the most records and making the most money for these white people. But creatives in this hip hop space, we're not going anywhere and it's not gonna go anywhere out of here with that. Be like, like that. Oh, since Drake left, hip hop is boring. Y' all. See what y' all did to Hip hop now that y' all ran. Yo, what the. What am I listening to y' all grown men talking about that? I ain't hear no women say that yet. Keep it tall. Keep it tall. You know, I don't even rant like this, but that should be pissing me off whenever I hear people have a pessimistic view on where things are going. I got a little bit of smoke for Joe Budden with that, too. He always pessimistic about the outlook on podcasts or the outlook on the field in general. And I understand what he's saying. I understand a lot of times it comes from a place of tough love. I've been here and I've failed so many times. So I have the cachet and the leverage to be able to tell y' all all this stuff. Man, shut the, bro. Seriously, when people are out here, we doing and we building and stuff like that, actively, don't be saying nothing against the grain and pessimistic to. To go against that. We looking for encouragement over here. No discouragement. All right. No discouraging. But with all of that being said, I do got to play another clip here because it brings up an interesting conversation. So let's go ahead and talk about it, y'. All. We gotta go ahead and talk about this. Yeah. [01:05:07] Speaker B: What did you tell him? [01:05:16] Speaker A: All right, so I don't know who's heard the news recently that's going on up in New York, but I'm gonna read this article here from Digital Music news. Title is NYC Radio Show Shutdowns Hot 97 abruptly cancels E Row in the Morning. The Block says goodbye to Ms. Jones and Ed Lover. So two of New York City's most popular hip hop morning shows have been shut down. Hot 97's Ebro in the morning and the blocks Ms. Jones and Ed Lover. Major changes are coming to the New York City's morning hip hop radio offerings. Hot 97 is canceled. Ebro in the morning while 94.7 the block has removed radio personalities Ms. Jones and a lover from the station's website. The Hot 97 co hosts Ebro Darden, Laura Stiles and Peter Rosenberg took to social media to post cryptic messages hinting at the end of their show. Finally, the Post posted more emotional goodbyes once the news was confirmed. We had the best time, the most beautiful listeners and got to work with legends. I love Rose Styles on Instagram. She went on to write some more. Again, they go through Ebro hints at the reason behind the cancellation had to do with his unspoken Outspoken political views, a lot of them involving, you know, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel. And also the owner of Media Co. Confirmed to Radio Inc. That Funkmaster Flex will be moving into Ebro's former morning slot, Funk Master Flex. He contested and just said like, look, I'm just going to be filling in for a morning or so. So it's, it's messy. We'll see where this goes. But the song that I played there is. I'm not sure I'm not going to do no contest with that. I may start doing certain things like that, like contests with that. But let's play this song again real quick. I don't know who knows the history behind this song right here. If, if Amy's listening, I think Amy, Amy. There's a good chance Amy would know. And there's no disrespect to my listeners. I just want to see who's here with me. You're. You know what I'm saying? Audio journal of an 80s baby. Hello. But so that that song right there was the first video that was played on mtv. Ironically, also, MTV has shut down or closed its doors. Paramount's actually shutting down 5 of its music focused channels that MTV has, like MTV looks like by the end of 2025, in other words. So all this was due to declining audiences, shifting view habits and stuff like that as far as people go moving to tick tock, YouTube and different streaming platforms. But essentially MTV, the end of an era. Again, that song was the first video played on MTV. But it says here MTV to shutter five music channels by the end of 2025. After nearly 44 years of shaping music culture, MTV parent company Paramount Global has announced it will permanently close five of its iconic music television channels by December 31, 2025, marking the end of a significant chapter in music broadcasting. Below, we break down which MTV channels are being shut down, why the decision was made and what it means for the future of especially for creators, fans and industry professionals. So the channels that are being closed are MTV Music. That's the flagship music one that we know. MTV, 80s, MTV, 90s club, MTV and MTV Live will all be shutting down. MTV HD will remain, but it'll pivot away from music videos into what reality and entertainment shows like Naked Dating UK and Jordy Shore. What? But yeah, it was a little late, but still, yeah, essentially their cost cutting and everything like that. But MTV shutting down, y'. All. Ebro in the morning and Ms. Jones and that lover, the Legends. The Legends. All right, shout out and salute to Ms. Jones at Lover Ebro, Peter Rosenberg and Laura Stiles did great work, honestly, in New York. Radio kept us entertained. Is. Is. It's tough that it's got to go down like that. Like to hear from you guys about what y' all feel, some of the reasons that go into these decisions and the shift that we're seeing in music media and in radio media. What does this mean for the future of the landscape? I'd love to hear your thoughts. So again, feel free to email the show again, mandatory ot704gmail.com or give us a call 704-781-7011. Again, my thoughts about the whole situation is that things are cyclical. And so as we are going back into this space where rap is not on the mainstream, hip hop seems to be getting pushed back and trying to be silenced is where we get back to this space of it being somewhat of a subculture that come on real hip hop, hip hop. I don't know what I'm talking about. That that becomes a subculture again, that you start seeing more smaller venues and stuff like that to host a lot of performers that are coming up and that these, these artists that they start to have time to develop again instead of having that microwave success that they've had over the past 10 or 15 years. So I believe that we're going back to that space and I think that the space that. That holds true as well in the broadcasting slash podcast in space. Also heard Joe Budden on plenty of podcasts again on his podcast tour as, as he's ascending as he should shout out to him. But I hold on real quick, y'. All Shout out to him, you know, with his ascension. But every stop that he makes, he's, you know, given a outlook on the landscape and it seems very limiting. It seems very pessimistic. Again, he's given a ceiling and giving a low ceiling with it, but he's essentially saying that podcasting is dead and, and, you know, this and that get in the big quote unquote bag from podcasting is, is over with. And, and that's fine that that all can be true. But the people that love broadcasting, you know, and love to create and do what they do, they're going to continue to do that. All right, this is an audio experiment. Inconsistency, not an audio experiment in trends. It's not an audio experiment. And what's hiding what's going to make the most money the fastest. So everybody else that is consistent in creating and believing they self and have a fervent belief in their self. They'll be fine. And you're always going to land on your feet, but you just got to be honest and you got to be true. True to the art and true to yourself. You know, I think that the podcasting space and the broadcasting space, if you will, overall, is getting back to a space of, like, a pirate radio station or starting to feel like pirate radio is. Is coming back or college radio is coming back. And again, this is all cyclical, so I think we're coming back around to that. And then, well, you know, we'll. We'll move forward to the next phases of this thing and the next iterations of this thing. But to say that it's completely dead, I think it's irresponsible and it's pessimistic at best. So there you have it. [01:13:14] Speaker B: Do the knowledge. [01:13:19] Speaker A: Wants to go ahead and move forward, Y' all shout out to the company. Move forward. My company. You know, Shan, if you need. If you got any moving needs or you need help moving commercially, residentially, we're here to help you, and we got people that can help you. So I wanted to go ahead and move forward to our High Star bars segment of the week. This week is brought to you by my boy, Amir Ali out of West Philly. And I. If I may say so, I'm a man of doppelgangers. I love doppelgangers. Amir Ali looks just like he could be Wayne O's little brother or Wayne O's son or little cousin or something like that. If y' all know, Wayne, 0119, from Harlem, is a Davies old manager, host of Everyday Struggle, and he has his own thing going on right now. I'll do it myself on YouTube. But Amir Ali looks just like him. But I wanted to go ahead and play this. He went up to bars on i95. It's a little bit longer, so I want y' all bear with me, but these are the high star bars of the week, y'. All. Let's see here. All right, here we go. Yeah. [01:14:41] Speaker C: Yo, look, I think we all know better by now who flow better by now the blood, sweat and tears look like no effort by now it'll never be none if it's no pressure by now my be for real you can't compare when you don't compete for real the heat is still put to sleep for real even still we was taught you how to eat your killer Learn to say even killing wolves don't think about how the sheep would feel Let you tell her to smoke until we in hell it love to embellish they miserable and they jealous Bring your around a shark and she drowns because you let her know that money good and they buying and we going to sell it I can't imagine to look on your face when she realize her mistake Playing my mixtape on y' all 68 got IEPs let me spell it out. [01:15:18] Speaker A: For you. [01:15:20] Speaker C: Yeah look don't get around them and act different say they rap different it ain't that different I promise you the last thing on my mind be a rap Will Smith not the only one from west that'll smack yeah let me apologize it won't be another hot as I hit him with the triple cross like island either way you go you just a victim of a homicide I knew what it was when I signed my name on the dotted line hey look I'm mashing perfectly remember laughing now I slide past on the carpet like I'm a lady Aztec look plastic you look mad and she look like she just to wants to on the drop getting a neck bone deceased flesh tone my dog Mr. Work with his eyes closed like touch tone I'm ot getting back in the Bonneville with a touch Let me get the wrong phone call and I'mma do my eight and then I skate off hit you when this pay off Thought they had us figured out but they was way off don't compare me to who don't never make the playoffs Day they stop making money today I'mma take a day off long as it's TAs to get I guess that mean his ass to kick don't let this rapper get you Put in a plastic bag that zip 40 attorney friendly ghost not on some cash but to flow I mastered it yeah yo flow in advance I'm glad showing their hand Cause honestly I'd rather that than be holding a hand I roll with the pool of the seat A bag full of dope in the van the money not gonna make you real Them guns don't make you a man this year I'm in a different bag not gonna get a pass it this for all them nights that I lost count making them nickel bags that time I turned one into two and all I had to get was happened just like you I did the math set me on a different path I'm out of town, living fast, lost it all, I get it back maybe this my destiny maybe this not maybe I put this pistol in your face and make you give me head yeah look I don't know if heaven is real I know said it was real and I know the flow like overdosing on set of the pills it's crazy cuz I could be right on time but ahead of it still sleeping with the pencil but the pistol got let in it still Even if he was apologetic but head of them still try to manipulate the game and then bet on it still I know sick of this flow we giving out medicine still yeah, look, hey, look. I'm starting to feel like the love conditional but it's reciprocal 101 I'm individual, indivisible one stand next to you knowing that he can't sit with you and right before he stab you in the look, you know how I go, dog, I get it, I tax it, you pay double, you know if it don't make money, it make trouble. I stick to the cool, stay solid, remain humble. I heard only pick up them guns cause they can't rumble, they popping it but they know who the ones and the lead is. Until I hit. I'm in the booth and I see red really be hurting but that's not what IG said they hating you can feel it in the air like who else really out here spitting facts like me on the real be mad cause they can't rap like me be Aon Crocket, they just act like me. They want a feature till they find out my rap's not free. Look, said it ain't about no paint. Then I rather be less involved. So you could tell the difference between me and the rest of y'. [01:17:52] Speaker B: All. [01:17:52] Speaker C: Cuz I'm a wolf. You know you really could only play fetch with dogs. You know what happened? They put me in the cave with the rest of y'. [01:17:57] Speaker B: All. [01:17:57] Speaker A: Oh, what? [01:17:58] Speaker C: Come on, Ab. I'm just warming up. [01:18:03] Speaker A: Cut that brother's wisdom real quick. You know what I'm saying? Shout out to my brother Amir Ali with that shout out to bars on i95 as well. He kept going, by the way. He kept going. Still, still spitting. So shout out to that. Think what he said now. Not the only dude from West Philly, Will Smith. Not the only dude from West Philly to smack like Aon Crockett. You can't act with acting like me is couple tough bars in there. Very, very tough. Very tough. I wanted to go ahead and move forward, y', all, so we could kind of go ahead and get out of here. But can't do that without giving some brotherly love. First show love. [01:18:51] Speaker B: It don't show nothing. [01:18:52] Speaker A: It don't cost nothing to show a show. A some love. So definitely wanted to first show some brotherly love and give a salute to Victor Wim Yama. Again, virtual hug out there to you. My brother, he expressing the postgame press press conference that he lost his grandmother or got news that he lost his grandmother right before playing in that NBA cup championship yesterday or last yesterday evening. So salute to him. Prayers. Prayers to that brother and also prayers to the family of Rob Rayner, Rob Reiner and his wife. Rob Reiner was known as was it all in the Family. He was on, I want to say he was the son of Archie Bunker on All in the Family. And he played what on the Wolf. Wolf of Wall street. He was Leonardo DiCaprio's dad. So he was in that infamous scene where he was going over the receipt and the expenses or whatnot from the dinner that they did and like a $25,000 dinner or something on the Wolf of Wall Street, a famous scene in there. And he was brutally murdered. Him and his wife is a tragic, tragic thing again. And just again, prayers out to his family. He all of the brutal gun violence that's happened this past weekend, certainly prayers out. And brotherly love, or love from this brother, if you will, to all of y' all that is going through something affected by those tragic events, especially again, brotherly love to the home team. Old man Q, Fat Boy Mix Master T, Carlos, shout out to my brother JB Dr. Buford, shout out to be easy DJ Blaze radio show podcast. Shout out to L. Shout out and brotherly love to Yoshi and Relationship Status podcast. Shout out to the Crux Media Group Music Jones podcast. Salute to all y' all in the community as well. Around this time. Y' all know what time it is. You know, all of this stuff that we do is with supreme faith that's in God. So we're going to end us with a prayer that's straight from the heart. May the ego and the hubris never break us apart. And from one brother to another, if nobody ever told you before, I love you. All right. I appreciate y'. All. All right. Y' all have a good one. We catch you on the next episode of Mandatory overtime. Peace. [01:21:33] Speaker B: Hey, everybody, it's closing time. You don't got to go home, but you can't stay here. [01:21:44] Speaker A: Closing time. [01:21:48] Speaker B: Do the knowledge. [01:21:49] Speaker A: I know you going to dig this. [01:21:52] Speaker B: My God. Garage game Mama got that bunch of crunch cake.